1897 Movies

Lost film.

A group of people are having a snowball fight. In the middle of this melee, a cyclist appears, at whom everyone throws snowballs and who ends up rolli...

Demonstration of exercises on the fixed bars.

A beautiful view of one of the most celebrated spots in the French capital. A magnificent fountain is playing in the background of the picture, and el...

Silent film.

Carrara, Italy. A train loaded with marble exits a tunnel.

Lasting for roughly 50 seconds, it shows the goodbyes of many passersby - first Europeans, then local Arab residents, then Jewish residents of the cit...

A Japanese theatre performance based on a legend.

Gymnasts launch themselves and jump on a pommel horse.

Elena of Montenegro and Victor Emmanuel III, followed by their escort.

Two dancers mime a fight to the sound of the tom-tom drum and the clapping of hands.

An incident of the Franco-Prussian War. It shows the bombardment of a house at Bazeille. It is the animated reproduction of de Neuville's celebrated p...

Two sections of Chasseurs Alpins climb a wall then descend it.

After launching production in London Dickson traveled to the Continent; the first stop was Paris, where this restaging of a familiar Lumière subject w...

Swimmers jump into the water from the docks, as a small boat passes by.